Imagine armor as light as fabric yet stronger than steel, built from materials that link together like molecular chainmail.

IN 1914 Walter Jones began the preface to his monograph on nucleic acids with the words, “The nucleic acids constitute what is possibly the best understood field of Physiological Chemistry ...

Both also encode for ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and transfer RNA (tRNA), which are necessary for protein synthesis. RNA molecules are single stranded polymers made up of RNA nucleotide monomers. Although ...

Center for Biomedical-photonics and Molecular Imaging, Advanced Diagnostic-Therapy Technology and Equipment Key Laboratory of Higher Education Institutions in Shaanxi Province, School of Life Science ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. The cytosolic nucleic acid sensors RIG-I and ...

They also identify that activation of only RNA monomers, which can be achieved using environmental separation of the ... Overall, this manuscript will be of interest to scientists studying the origin ...

In this study, chemoenzymatic polymerization of ethyl ester monomers with sequences His, GlyHis ... Polypeptides and proteins, which are composed of amino acids with side chains varying in size, ...

A uric acid test measures the amount of a waste product called uric acid (urate) in your blood or urine. Uric acid is a byproduct of the breakdown of chemicals called purines found in foods and drinks ...

Essential amino acids are organic compounds that your body needs to function. You can get them from certain foods. Amino acids, often referred to as the building blocks of proteins, are compounds ...

For more than two decades, the Ihara research group has been focusing on the development of new methods for polymer syntheses using diazocarbonyl compounds as monomers. They found that ...

This important theoretical study examines the possibility of encoding genomic information in a collective of short overlapping strands (e.g., the Virtual Circular Genome (VCG) model). The study ...